Cloak of Falling

Watch your step with this item, you might end up falling down… or even up.

This item was created by Arbanax, a powerful cleric and devious prankster. He loved to set trip wires and other simple traps about town. He even went to the extent of visiting some kobolds for help. One day he got bored of seeing people just fall so he made this item to spice falling up a bit. It didnt come out quite as well as he had hoped so he sold it. It could show up anywhere.

A thin light-blue cloak with a thin silver lining. Whenever the wearer on this cloak stumbles of comes close to falling in any way, or does fall, the magic of this item activates and you roll a d100/d%.

Magical Properties:

Roll of:
01-49 = Nothing happens, character falls as normal.
50-60 = The ground under the character becomes slippery.
61-80 = The character falls slowly and lands softly.
81-99 = The character falls up 20ft.
100 = The character falls up 50ft.

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I'm happy with a 3/5, I might eventually think of a really good backstory; about the shortness: I'm going to try to add some more flavor to it at some time. Sadly, its not up to the quality of my past items, but, hey, they cant all be winners.

Echo: people do a lot of the time, though they are badly hurt. It is only a definite kill if the victim is inside.. thus hitting the 10 foot roof at the speed of a 50 foot fall... then eventually falling down... ick.

How about writing up Arbanax - but write him as a villain, a genuine Bad Guy - lets face it, a man who derives amusement from other peoples pain is NOT A NICE PERSON

As for the cloak - I'm inclined to agree with Echo - this is an assassins' tool, even if it wasn't originally meant to be - as a joke it's in extremely bad taste, a quite likely to get Arbanax killed just as soon as somebody (enter the PCs) works out who made it

I more conceived the item as "throwing you the distance" on the upstroke. Mostly because you can't fall upward, or have the slow acceleration, with gravity holding you in the opposite direction. The write up does not mention your fall being broken by impacting things on the upfall. So you would be pinned on the ceiling still under the acceleration/ force of the fifty foot fall (probably breaking most wooden roofs not made to support in that direction.)

The party wakes up in an inn around a table with wine goblets near at hand. They have forgotten all that happened the last day. As they seek to find the truth they come in contact with a man that gives them a job which pays quite nicely.
When they have finished with this rather dubious assignment they are invited to dinner by the the man...
Deja Wu?